Somewhere in Between

There were a million words embedded;
some spoken but unheard and some left
unspoken but understood by you and me.
Half a million were just naïve knaves but
somewhere in between, we found exactly
what we had been looking for all our lives.
In the depths of Love that cradles our souls,
splashing waves between Today and Morrow,
in the broken tryst that leaves but hopes,
we discover 'Who We Are' in each other.
I am sailing across the storm as I know
you are stranded on the other end of the shore
that bridges Dreams and Reality; perhaps,
we are just memories, an imagination in me
but the Dream that harbours us is real.
And for that, my darling, I am willing to stay
and wait for a thousand years just for
your shadow to come and dance with my
memories. There trills a secret in the depths
of love between You and Me; between us,
Time plays its treacherous symphony. But
I wait; the Dream that harbours us Is
Real!

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Editor’s Note

The number one question our editors receive is—what do the editors and judges look for when judging the contest? The number one answer we give is creativity. Unlike prose, writing composed in everyday language, poetry is considered a creative art and requires a different type of effort and a certain level of depth. Of the thousands of poems entered in each contest, the ones that catch our judges’ eyes are the ones that remove us, even just slightly, from the scope of everyday life by using language that is interesting, specific, vivid, obscure, compelling, figurative, and so on. Oftentimes, poems are pulled aside for a second look based simply on certain words that intrigued the reader. So first and foremost, be sure your poetry is written using creative language. Take general ideas and make them personal. In his infamous book De/Compositions: 101 Good Poems Gone Wrong, W. D. Snodgrass imparts, “We cannot honestly discuss or represent our lives, any more than our poems, without using ideational language.”